QIP $ \subseteq $ AM(2QCFA)

Abstract

The class of languages having polynomial-time classical or quantum interactive proof systems ($\mathsf{IP}$ or $\mathsf{QIP}$, respectively) is identical to $\mathsf{PSPACE}$. We show that $\mathsf{PSPACE}$ (and so $\mathsf{QIP}$) is subset of $\mathsf{AM(2QCFA)}$, the class of languages having Arthur-Merlin proof systems where the verifiers are two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states (2QCFAs) communicating with the provers classically. Our protocols use only rational-valued quantum transitions and run in double-exponential expected time. Moreover, the member strings are accepted with probability 1 (i.e., perfect-completeness).